Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: Analysts, investors, and founders expect a hard year for tech startups, including more down rounds; PitchBook says 400+ unicorns haven’t raised funds since 2021  —  The startup world has had a tough year — plagued by mass layoffs, plummeting venture capital investment and the chaotic collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, raised $60M in equity and $25M via a credit facility to launch a super app for deals, taking its total funding to $200M+  —  The current inflation environment has all of us looking for ways to cut costs and save some money. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google’s Imagen and Stable Diffusion, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann  —  In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox. Lees verder op Tech Meme